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Saturday, May 20, 2017

Despite recent heat; May 2017 could still go down as one of the coldest Mays on record.

Despite the recent summer-like heat-wave, with temperatures plummeting in some cases over 30 degrees from Friday afternoon's high temperatures on Saturday (May 20), thanks to the passage of a sharp cold front right out of Canada through the area early Saturday morning,May 2017 could still go down as one of the coldest on record,what with temperatures expected to stay in the 60's and 70's for the rest of May 2017,giving us below normal highs on some days and above normal highs on others. Just in terms of number of below normal high temperatures,May 2017 could go down as one of the coldest Mays on record on that criteria alone.Here's the high and low temperatures as compared to normal for each day in May 2017 so far for the city of White Plains,NY;a suburban New York city in Westchester County,as of 12AM,EDT,May 21,2017 from accuweather.com:

-Highest Temperature: 94 degrees on May 18
-Lowest Temperature: 39 degrees on May 4
-Lowest High Temperature: 54 degrees on May 7 and 13
-Highest Low Temperature: 72 degrees on May 18
-# of Above Normal High Temperatures: 6 days
-# of Below Normal High Temperatures: 14 days